The Arc of Wetkarma

A repository of news, views and facts interesting to Wetkarma.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Prosper - 4 month setup review

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Well back in February I decided to experiment with Prosper - an online loans/borrowing service to test the premise whether it could pay high...

The Oil Bubble. When Supply and Demand has no effect on price.

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There is something fundamentally unstable about oils price when increasing supply and decreasing demand (growth) doesn't result in a che...
Friday, February 02, 2007

Oops -- our bad

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So we kidnapped and tortured you because we mistook you for someone else. No harm no foul right? Right? The funny thing is that this sort ...

The madness of crowds

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So over the past few years, there has been various stories involving some form of public shaming on the internet -- from dog poop girl, to t...

Vista fallout begins

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Looks like I'm not the only one who had graphics problems with Vista. News sites are beginning to pick up the fact that certain graphics...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

Vista Bugs and Solutions I've discovered

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Even although Vista is now officially released, there are still a variety of critical bugs I've noted in Microsoft's new pretty OS. ...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Why Chase Bank USA Sucks

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A few months ago I was doing a bit of pasalubong (gifts for friends/family when you go visiting them) shopping on Amazon when the site offer...
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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Whats that smell? Smells like a police state.

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This just sucks.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Hacking Online Banks

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The Washington Post covers a pretty nice attack which allows the bad guys to steal two factor authenication credentials. What is not so wel...
Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Barack Obama on Religion and the Public Square

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Sen. Barack Obama recently gave a speech on how religion and politics mixes in the public square. The whole thing is worth reading or liste...
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Crazy..or Batshit Crazy? An examination of right-wing logic.

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Ok so Dennis K over at the "the Flying Monkey-Right" blog believes that a recent New York Times story which published the fact th...
Monday, July 03, 2006

A false sense of security

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A day in the life blog has a neat tip on how access your gmail mail account via https (thus encrypted) rather than http (unencrypted). I ca...
Sunday, July 02, 2006

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Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.
Friday, June 30, 2006

In Defense of American Express

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So Ben McConnell over at  Church of the Customer Blog   is complaining about American Express jacking his interest rate ever so often to an ...
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Freedom is on the march.....away from the USA

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So while we're assiduously investigating illegal tribunal cases in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the military is also "investigating" ...

Incompetent or Liars?

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An Afghan man is held as an unlawful combatant in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for 2 years. When brought before (a now declared illegal) military tr...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Parker or Webb for VA Senate?

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Having decided to not for Sen. George Allen, I decided to take a look at the other candidates. The libertarian party does not seem to be fie...

Tracking Reason #1 to vote against George Allen in the next VA election

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 Sen. George Allen (R, VA) voted for amending the U.S.  constitution to prohibit the "desecration of the U.S. flag". Enforcing pat...
Thursday, June 15, 2006

Got a warrant? No need to knock

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The new Robert's supreme court has tossed out the requirement that police must knock before serving a warrant. The Supreme Court ruled ...

Immigrants as Seccessionists

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David Flores is making the argument that the USA has betrayed the principles of the nations founders by allowing the government wide leeway ...
Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Dutch Muslims support 1st Amendment far more than US citizens

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So one of my favorite "right-wing" sites LGF is running a story about how "40% of Young Dutch Muslims Reject Democracy"...
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